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JoeFasbinder

Writer,Reporter, Editor

About

Joe Fasbinder has been a writer, reporter and editor for the last 30 years, mostly at United Press International. In addition, he has worked part time or freelance for United Reporting, City News Bureau of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times Special Sections, Los Angeles Times News Syndicate, California Law Business, and Pool and Spa News.

In addition, he has found time to place stories on a freelance basis with the Chicago Tribune, Adweek, Downtown News of Los Angeles, Malibu Times, Santa Monica Sun and several other publications.

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Works

Works

Works

Witchlight

The hypnotic story of a young man and what may be a haunted item from the recent past, and how it impacts the lives of two families in a small farm town.

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A thoroughly researched, tension-wrought tale of greed, and how it dazzles and threatens, sometimes using the most arcane and unearthly means, to conquer a man and his family, and to wring seemingly impossible changes, potentially enormous changes in the life of Dayer Preston, who, with his wife, has always striven to work toward the light, as they understand it.

The story takes place at the dawn of the Nineteenth Century, in Williker Township, a cold and dying place, in western New York State, at a time when it seemed that there was no magic strong enough to make things right, to bring forth abundance from an earth that withheld its bounty, despite man’s best efforts. Despite the magic that stirred the spirits of heaven and earth.

It is a strange and unearthly time. It was an era in which an average, everyday person knew that if you put a few hairs in a glass of water, they would turn into worms overnight, and that to assure prosperity, lamens scrawled with magic words would be placed behind the mantel. The line between magic and reality was blurred, and so the arrival of a ritual magician at your door on an early spring night wasn’t much to be noticed, not even when he began to bring a struggling farm family closer and closer to the line between objective reality and a world ruled over by magic words scrawled on a page.

It is a tale of mystery. How much can the magician Walters bring forth? How much of what he says are lies, and how much of what he possesses can bring forth bounty, potential wealth, from an unforgiving earth? How much is simply evil, and can it be controlled? And why is Dayer Preston so necessary to the grandest of all the magic rituals that awaits them?

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An odyssey into the world to track down and try to define an elusive electronic genius and define the nature of magic on a grand scale.

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Tales of the uncanny and supernatural from Santa Monica’s most visible and haunted location.

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Clippings

Clippings

Clippings

Santa Monica Airport Runway Begins

Hearing From Homeless

First E-Scooter Fatality

Third Street Promenade Under Transition

Clogged Arteries

The Pool's Cool

Five Date Nights

FREE Love - Almost

Zuma Dogg

Driving to Venice

12 Days of Christmas

Backyard Drowning

Copping A Kiss in LA

Cowboy Boot Shoes

Diving Out In LA

Dr. Seuss Last Book

Holiday Gift Guide

Holiday Stress

Magick Circle

Mini Museums

Newspaper Guild

Public Relations

The Tax Man

Traveling Diamonds

Tubasantas

Westhaven